North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has made a dramatic offer to meet President Donald Trump face to face for peace talks, sources said Thursday.
He sent a personal letter to the U.S. president which was delivered Thursday.
The message was passed to the White House through a South Korean delegation which held their own talks with the dictator this week,
CNN reported.
In return Kim is offering to suspend his nuclear missile testing program, South Korea's national security adviser Chung Eui-yong told White House officials.
He had met Kim earlier in the week in Pyeongyang, the dictator's capital.
Trump had said that
South Korea will be making a major announcement at 7pm EDT on
North Korea.
Trump had popped into the White House press briefing room on Thursday evening at close of business and told a small contingent of reporters who just happened to be present that an announcement was coming this evening.
The U.S. president gave no indication of what would be announced but suggested with the surprise appearance that the news would be positive.
Chung, the top South Korean national security official, had been at the White House on Thursday,
Yonhap news reported.
The South Korean news agency said that Chung, who is fresh off a trip to North Korea, was at the White House for a meeting with U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was traveling abroad in Ethiopia on Thursday.
Trump on Tuesday said that a 'very good dialogue' had opened up with
North Korea as he cautiously approached Pyongyang's offer to freeze its nuclear tests while it holds talks with the United States.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that the conversations had yielded progress, striking an optimistic tone.
'We're gonna see. We're gonna see,' he told a journalist asking about North Korea's commitment to ending its nuclear weapons program if it no longer felt threatened. 'They seem to be acting positively, but we're gonna see.'
The U.S. president said he wants to take the 'proper' pathway, which he suggested was diplomatic talks, 'But we are prepared to go either way.'
'And as I said, hopefully we'll go in the very, very peaceful, beautiful path. We're prepared to go whichever path is necessary,' he added. 'I think we're having very good dialogue, and you're gonna certainly find out very soon what's happening, but we have, we have made progress, there's no question about it.'
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